The annual New York Giants vs. New York Jets preseason game is a strange animal. There is a rivalry, of sorts, between the two teams, but it doesn’t have much juice since the two teams play in different conferences and have both been among the NFL’s worst teams more often than not in recent memory. It’s nothing like Yankees-Mets games, which pit two contenders…oh wait, never mind.
The Jets have had the upper hand lately in both the pre-season (the Giants haven’t won the “Snoopy Bowl” since 2019) and regular season (the Jets have won the last three meetings). If you lament the Giants’ mostly poor play overall since their last Super Bowl, though, Jets’ fans have had it even worse, their team not even sniffing the playoffs since 2010.
This year, Giants fans sense something more important –